All things Glaucoma

DOWN: 1. In aqueous dynamics, add this pressure-independent term (U) to Goldmann’s sacred equation, or your formula is outdated. 2. Middle-aged man, gastric ulcer history, unilateral pressure spikes plus mild iritis. 3. The photonic hammer residents wield when they’ve mistaken the iris for Swiss cheese. 4. The visual field’s Bermuda Triangle central enough to matter, paracentral enough to be missed, and glaucoma’s favourite hunting ground. 10. A toxic love story between iris and meshwork – smothering contact that ends not in romance, but in closure. ACROSS: 5. When your corneal endothelium decides, it wants a career in metalwork, leaving the stroma looking like a hammered sheet of silver and the intra ocular pressure (IOP) rising in protest. 6. Histologic villain behind outflow resistance: collapsed, “sieve-like” beams of this tissue -once called the “cradle of aqueous misery.” 7. A syrupy oral liquid that tastes like punishment but rewards you with a short-lived IOP drop. 8. When erythrocytes refuse to die with dignity, they come back pale and rubbery, choking the outflow like zombies in the meshwork. 9. Landmark study that demonstrated IOP fluctuation, not mean pressure, as the predictor of field loss in advanced disease. 11. Because blaming IOP isn’t enough, we now indict your chromosomes – mutations that script your nerve’s death in advance. Financial support and sponsorship Nil. Conflicts of interest There are no conflicts of interest.